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London Olympics Disappointments: Five Sports the US Needs to Improve at
for ...
Yahoo! Sports
Judo: Kayla Harrison, a judoka for the U.S., won the country's first-ever
Olympic gold in the sport in London. This was a nice step forward for U.S.
judo. A big negative, though, was the fact that the U.S. only qualified
five competitors for a total of ...
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London Games closing ceremony: Which acts turned it down?
CBS News
(CBS News) Sunday's Olympic closing ceremony featured a star-studded
performance bill with a range of British music artists. The Who, The Spice
Girls, George Michael and Jessie J were among the acts taking the stage to
close out the 2012 London Games.
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London: Report says tourism in Britain dropped during the Games
Los Angeles Times
Businesses in Britain experienced a "significant reduction" in the number
of visitors compared with summer 2011, and not just in the capital,
according to a British tourism trade organization survey taken after the
2012 Olympics in London. "As an ...
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Olympics most-watched US TV event ever: NBC
Yahoo! Sports
... nearly 2000 hours aired from Beijing. "The London Olympics was a
wonderful 17 days for NBCUniversal, exceeding all our expectations in
viewership, digital consumption and revenue," Steve Burke, the CEO of
NBCUniversal, said in a statement Monday.
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London Developers Hope for Olympic-Size Boom
Wall Street Journal
LONDON—The flame no longer burns inside London's Olympic Stadium, but
property developers still are hoping that the Summer Games will ignite the
moribund housing market in the neighboring area. When the U.K. capital won
the right to host the 2012 ...
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Six Olympics medals best gift to the nation on the Independence Day:
Saina ...
Zee News
New Delhi: Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, who won a bronze medal at London
Olympic, said that getting six medals by the Indian athletes at the Olympic
Games is the best gift to the nation on the Independence Day. In an
exclusive interview with Zee News the ...
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London Olympics Auction Will Break Bank of Sports Fans
Bleacher Report
The Official London 2012 Olympic Auction (h/t Off the Bench) is up and
running, and some of the most bizarre and inane objects you didn't know you
needed to have are available. The following prices are merely the auction
value at the time of this writing.
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Now to Rio, full of Olympic 2016 jitters
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
RIO DE JANEIRO – The snuffing out of the Olympic flame in London Sunday
marked a conclusion for most, but for 2016 host city Rio de Janeiro it
kicked off four years of pre-games jitters and a race against the clock to
ready this notoriously laid-back ...
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London Olympic Highlights with Alicia Sacramone, Carli Lloyd and Trick Shots
Bleacher Report
Millions of viewers from around the world, thousands of athletes competing
and hundreds of medals handed out. That was the 2012 London Olympics, and
Bleacher Report was on-scene at the center of the sporting universe for two
weeks to catalog every ...
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14 Memorable moments from the 2012 London Summer Olympics
SI.com
The Olympics -- all sports, for that matter -- are about movement: Faster,
higher, stronger, right? But for me the instant that will linger longest
was one of absolute stillness. Liu, China's hero of Athens and its bust in
Beijing, had come to London ...
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